Rotboim, Jacob

Son of Leah and Yosef, was born in 1921 in Poland in the town of Turka. He finished elementary school and became a worker. During the Second World War he managed to join the partisans who fought the Germans. Later he came to Russia and worked in a weapons factory. At the end of the war he set out on the Bericha route and was one of the illegal immigrants to Palestine who arrived in Palestine in 1947. He was received as a guard at Nesher near Haifa. He studied at the framework, which he began to deal with while he was still abroad. His friends, who admired him for his good qualities, called him “partisan.” He was always wearing a leather coat and boots. When he enlisted in the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was full of hope for the future of Israel and its future. “I will not return as a new immigrant from the war,” he said. “I will return to my home, to Nesher … and the clothes I received when I came to Israel, I will tell the others.” Yaakov served in the Carmeli Brigade, fought in the Upper Galilee and fell near Rosh Pinna on July 10, 1948. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.